[Mathih13]

The watched reputation bar appeared without a selection. Character creation did not send the no-selection value, and the Gateway could not save a watched faction.

Save the signed reputation-list index in the Character row. Send -1 when no faction is selected, restore it on world entry, and send a private update after a successful selection or clear. Refuse out-of-range indices without changing reputation standing. Existing Characters default to -1, and old Transfer snapshots remain readable.

Closes #650.

Verification

The missing-field regression failed before the fix and passes with it. Local checks passed:

• 4,716 tests across the importer, Module, Gateway, Package API, Package Delta, shared code and test support. Normal ignored tests remain ignored.
• Six durable watched-faction tests for fresh Characters, selection, clearing, unchanged standing, Actor authority, taxi flight, reconnects and map changes.
• A Headless Client test through the real Gateway and a private Module verified selection, clearing and restoration after reconnecting.
• A plain publish from the issue's baseline preserved all 45 existing Character fields and added signed -1. Offline schema inspection confirmed the encoded default.
• Formatting, workspace clippy, the wasm check, generated-binding comparison and preflight.

After rebasing onto 99a5feec, all 2,133 Gateway tests, all 1,569 Module unit tests, workspace clippy and the durable Headless Client reconnect test passed again. A read-only adversarial review confirmed that the conflict resolution preserves both trainer spell data and watched-faction state.

Adversarial reviews used separate subagents. Standards: zero findings. Spec: zero implementation findings. Both reviewers checked the follow-up change to use the transfer-aware Character lookup.

Limits

The reporter confirmed that the affected display is the watched bar near the experience bar. I have not checked the result in a graphical build-5875 client or run a complete multi-shard Headless Client scenario. Durable map-change checks, Transfer tests and codec tests cover those component paths. Research and pinned protocol sources.

This appends a defaulted Character column and adds a Gateway Verb. Deploy the Module and Gateway together across the Realm. No production deployment is part of this PR.

Models: GPT-6-Astra and GPT-6.1-Sol. Harness: Codex in T3 Code.